Right now, all my other textile pursuits are full-on and deadline driven, they involve lots of hand-stitching and lots of things I've never even tried before. You'll get to see all of that soon, but in the meantime a little bit of plain knitting is just what I need to switch off and keep me sane – so here goes...
First up is a finish! It feels like forever since I've done a ta-da moment on here. This is a blanket I knitted for my sister, or more accurately my new little nephew. It's done in Koigu I bought in New York last year. I learnt a big lesson in keeping my Ravelry up-to-date with this one. Unfortunately the blue skein ran out about 5 rows short of the other colours, which was pretty frustrating. I contacted Purl Soho and they kindly offered to send me another, but I couldn't find the tag so I guessed the colourway. I didn't like what came back in the post and I've found the receipt and colourway since (doubly annoying, and note to self – you really need to keep Ravelry up to date!) so I just went with the shorter blue strip in the right colour. Let's face it, nobody else will probably notice except me (and now all of you!)
The next project is another summer-weight cardigan I'm knitting for my sister (different one). The pattern is in bamboo, but I'm doing it in a cotton blend. It took a lot of swatching to figure out which needle size I should be using, but I think it's going to be OK now. For some reason I keep twisting stitches on this one. Maybe I'm subconsciously sabotaging myself to break up the monotony of plain knitting?
Right now though, I need to get back to that stitching! Hope everyone has a great week.
Oh, I know the feeling! When life's full on there's nothing like relaxing with a bit of uncomplicated knitting.
ReplyDeleteI'm just doing a row of each a day before bed ;-)
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